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Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa AI model trained on human conversation

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Jack Dorsey's company Block has developed an AI model named Dessa, which is designed to converse like a new acquaintance. This model was trained exclusively on human conversations. Block has shared examples of Dessa's interactions to demonstrate its capabilities. AI

IMPACT Introduces a new conversational AI model trained on human dialogue.

RANK_REASON This is a product release from a company, not a frontier AI lab.

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Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa AI model trained on human conversation

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    Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can …

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